Fact of The Week: Use of Small Area FMRs Increases Number of Rental Homes in Higher Income Areas that Rent Below Fair Market Rents
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2017)
Study Finds Airbnb Increases Rents
A new study by Kyle Barron, Edward Kung, and Davide Prosperpio, The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability: Evidence from Airbnb, finds that a 10% increase in Airbnb listings in a neighborhood…
Neighborhoods Contribute to Racial Disparities in Asthma Rates
A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Is It Who You Are or Where You Live? Residential Segregation and Racial Gaps in Childhood Asthma, indicates that residential neighborhoods…
Fact of The Week: Households with Worst Case Housing Needs Increased Across All Family Types from 2013 to 2015
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2017). Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2ftHf9t
Advocates Carry Out More Than 60 Local “Our Homes, Our Voices” Events and Activities throughout the Country, Launch Voter Registration Drive
Advocates in 28 states and the District of Columbia hosted more than 60 local “Our Homes, Our Voices” Week of Action events during the week of July 22-29, uniting in a collective call for increased…
Fact of the Week: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Have Much Higher Poverty and Lower Homeownership Rates than Whites
Source: Prosperity Now. (2017). Prosperity Now Scorecard. Retrieved from: http://scorecard.prosperitynow.org/
Trump’s Tax Plan Gives Greatest Benefit to Top Earners
A report by the Tax Policy Center (TPC) estimates that President Donald Trump’s tax proposals would decrease federal tax revenue by $3.5 trillion over the first decade after implementation and by…
Fact of The Week: President Trump’s Tax Proposals Skewed Heavily to Wealthy
Source: Tax Policy Center. (2017). The Implications of What We Know and Don’t Know About President Trump’s Tax Plan. Washington, DC: Author.
Spring Shelterforce Examines the Concept of Housing Affordability
The spring 2017 issue of Shelterforce features a series of articles that examine the standard measure of housing affordability that a household should spend no more than 30% of its income on housing…
Renters Who Move Pay Higher Rents
A report from Zillow, How to Save on Rent: Don’t Move, finds that renters who renew their lease typically pay less rent than those who move. In 2015, renters who moved in the past year paid 47% more…